I've had my flower beds for 10 years and I'm going to have to google most of what everyone is wanting just to see what they are and what they look like. My top 5 right now is 1. Spuria Irises any color. 2. Oriental Lilies 3. Asiatic Lilies 4. Flowers that bloom until the first frost. 5. Different color day lilies I have no idea the names of the ones I have. I've been trying to put a name to them but so many of them look alike. I am cleaning off my hillside and have black raspberry vines if anyone is interested. I also have Purple Wisteria, old fashioned purple lilac bushes, and a weeping willow tree that I can take starts from get them rooted and send. I don't like taking starts from those unless someone wants them. I've never shipped a plant so I may need some assistance on how the best way is to ship.

I don't know if I could list them all. Off the top of my head, the native plants that I have: Azalea Beauty Berry Dogwoods Downy Phlox Trillium Cuneatum Trillium Decumbens Trillium Erectum Solomon's Seal Bluet Bloodroot Mayapples Columbine Iris Cristata Geranium Heuchera Americana Oxalis violaceae pink, white, and yellow Rue Anemone False Rue Anemone Foamflower Hepatica Asarum Arifolia Fire Pink Indian Pink Iris Cristata purple and white Jack in the Pulpit Oakleaf Hydrangea Viola Walteri Unknown variegated violet Spiderwort Trout Lily Lots of different native ferns Green Eyed Susan Black Eyed Susan Butterfly Weed Blue Shooting Star Coreopsis Honeysuckle Mountain Laurel Ox-Eye Daisy Verbena Wild Petunia Bee Balm Trumpet Vine Cross Vine St. John's Wort Lizard's Tail Green Dragon A great site to look at is www.briartech.com/floweringplants.htm Deb

For the cool weather comming, the greens, lettuce, and kale are easy! Turnips, radish, beet, and carrot. Carrot being the most difficult to be sure it comes up. you can also get onion sets this time of year and simply push the root end of them into the soil a little way and if there is a little bit of moisture in the soil, they will sprout up for you. We often surround our garden beds with onions. Just don't plant peas or beans with onions. Snow peas are good cool weather crop but if we get a hard freeze, it could kill the blooms and set back the harvest so some will recommend planting snow peas for the cool spring season. I'll be planting a bunch of snow peas here soon though since they like warm soil for germination. When we get to spring planting time, get some sweet potatoes started, they will make you think you are a master summer gardener!!! They like the hot and wet and produce a wonderful ground cover over your hole garden to help keep weeds at bay over summer. I've got a lovely bed that has Okra growing tall and sweet potatoes covering the ground and that bed did very well over the heat of summer and will probably continue to do well until it gets cold. Okra, sweet potatoes, southern peas (crowder peas, cow peas, black eye peas), beans, and hot peppers are good hot weather crops to think about for next summer. Get them started in mid spring though so you can get a nice long season of them. Here is a link that might be useful: TCLynx

You're right Iris but I think I know where Im going to plant everything. I'll try to take before and after pictures. I told Jay before, Im going to take a week off work, maybe two, to do all my prepping and planting. One week in spring, one in summer. Have to get all the other projects done too- stain the deck, fix a couple siding shingles, refinish a bathtub, a couple drainage and grading projects... just writing that down made me apprehensive haha.